Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955.
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Liverpool :
Liverpool University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Series: | Liverpool English Texts and Studies
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| Online Access: | Click to View |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 At Home with Books
- 2 Running up Eyre Street: Independent Young Readers and the Public Libraries
- 3 Hefty Books and Tuppenny Weeklies
- 4 Reading Scenes: Social Networks and Reading
- 5 'Getting them learned': Books in the Classroom
- 6 The 1937 'Confession Book' of Mary Wilkinson: Reading and the Second World War
- 7 'You can read and dance': Reading in Early Adulthood
- 8 'Anna Karenina, you know, and all the normal things': Sheffield Readers, Classics and the Contemporary
- The Last Word
- Apendix 1: Interview Prompts
- Appendix 2: Informants and Interviewers
- Bibliography
- Index.